investigation

Transparency International has welcomed the launch of a criminal investigation by the National Crime Agency into the £8 million worth of funding for Better for the Country Limited and the Leave.EU organisation during the 2016 EU referendum.

Human rights and journalists' organisations have called for Turkey to urgently ask UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to establish a United Nations investigation into the possible extrajudicial execution of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Following the double murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his partner, Martina Kusnirova the Secretary- General of Reporters Without Borders has called on the Slovak Prime Minister to express regret and apologise for insulting journalists " on several occasions".